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No. 203,651. I Patented May 14, I878.

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JOHN SCHNEIDER, 'OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,651, dated May 14,1878; application filed January 3, 1878.

7 To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, JOHN SCHNEIDER, of Indianapolis, in the county ofMarion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Construction .of Fermenting and Ice Houses for Beer,850.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and t0 the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of fermentingand ice houses of the buildings used for the manufacture of beer andother malt liquors; and it consists in the construction and arrangementof lines and duets with suitable valves or dampers, by which thetemperature as well as the ventilation of the fermenting-room can beregulated, while the ice in the ice-room is better preserved frommelting too rapidly.

It also consists in an arrangement of gutters and troughs, by which thedrippings of the sweat or condensed water from the gutters is carriedoff, all of which will be more fully described in the followingspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, inwhich- Figure 1 is a plan view of the fermentingroom. Fig. 2 is a planview of the second story or ice-room. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssectionon line :0 m. Fig. 4 is a vertical crosssection on line y Figs. 5 and 6are enlarged detail views, showing the arrangement of gut ters.

In the drawings, A represents the outer or main walls of the building,in which B is the fermenting-room, G the ice-room, and D the cellar. Inthe walls of this building are arranged the fiues E, with ducts oropenings 6 near the ceiling and floors, to draw off the foul air andgases. Suitable dampers or valves are arranged in the ducts to close oropen them, as desired. Below the floor of the fermenting-room are thehorizontal flues F, connecting with the flues E and, by ducts f, withthe cellar, by which the foul air and gases are carried off from thecellar. In the lines E, slides or dampers a, near the ceiling of thefermenting-room, allow the foul air to escape when opened, and ventilateit and by opening the slides or dampers Z), near the bottom, thecarbonic-acid gas produced by the fermenting process escapes. By closingthe dampers a b the cellar isshut off from any heavy outside atmosphere.

Above the fermenting-room is arranged the ice-room, provided with aslatted floor, under which metal gutters are arranged between thejoists, and serve to collect the water of the ice as it melts. Thesegutters must be sufficiently inclined to lead 0d the water through smallpipes 70 at the ends of the gutters, and the plpes project about one anda half inch above the bottom of the gutters H, so that there will bealways about one inch of ice-water in them.

The surplus water flows through the pipes '10 into the main gutters I,into which they descend to within one inch of their bottom, so that theoutlet will be always covered with water to exclude the air from theice-room. The main gutters are placed on the ends of the building, andmust also be inclined snfficiently. to collect the water, which iscarried off to any desired place by the spout K, so that the ice-watermay be used for cooling off the beer, &c. The spout K passes up into themain gutters about three inches, so as to have the bottom of saidgutters always covered with ice-water. The object of keeping the waterin the gutters is to cool the air in the fermentingroom; and as therewill be always a flow of running water in them, a current or movement ofair will be created, which will draw off the carbonic-acid gas in theroom.

To collect the sweat of the gutters H, occasioned by condensation, smalltroughs, preferably of wood, are arranged below them, which also emptytheir contents into the main gutters. The ceiling N of the ice-room ismade of corrugated metal, and by it the moisture is collected. Below thecorrugations are also arranged small wooden troughs n, which carry thecondensed water into the main gutters, and thence it is led off bysimilar spouts, as in the fermenting-rooms.

In the sides of the ice-room are arranged the flues G G, which areprovided with doors or valves d g, and in the sides of the ice-receiverwith doors or valves 71. and i. The

valves h and i are arranged in the sides of the ice-receiver, so thatthe air may be taken always from the surface of ice as it melts, theupper one being opened first. On two sides of the ice-room the flues Grextend from near the ceiling to at least one foot below the top of thefermenting-tubs in the room '13, so as not to injure the process offermenting, and they serve to admit cold air from the ice-room when thedoors or Valves in the flues are opened. If the doors d and g are openedin the flues G, the warm air of the fermenting- -room or cellar is drawn0E and is cooled on top of the ice, and after cooling it descends againinto the fermenting-room or cellar through the flues G. When the ice ismelted down below the door g, the door h, and lastly the door 6, isopened, so that the warm air always comes on top of the ice. A smallspace or flue, L,is arranged in the outer or main walls of the building,so as to make them hollow; and, if desired, it may be filled in withsawdust or other suitable non-conducting material. The object of theflue L, with its ducts m, is to use it interchangeably with the flue Ein different kinds of weather; and when it is desirable to exclude theexternal air, as in heavy or damp weather, this space is ventilated bythe ducts m, which lead to the large ventilator M in the roof.

' The advantages of my invention are, that the rooms are all thoroughlyventilated, and the temperature can be regulated as desired. The ice ismuch better preserved from melting, and a great saving of ice therebyobtained.

The sweat caused by condensation will be pre vented from dripping intothe ice or rooms. It can be constructed at a very moderate cost, and canbe easily applied to buildings for this purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. In a building'for the manufacture of malt liquors, the ice-room 0,provided with flues G G, having dampers or valves 01 g in the body ofthe fines and dampers h i in the sides of the flues, all constructed andarranged as shown, and for the purpose specified.

2. In a building for the manufacture of malt' liquors, the combinationof the fermentingroom B with the ice-room 0, provided with flues G G,having dampers d g in the body of the flues, and dampers hi in the sidesof the flues, all constructed and arranged as shown, and for the purposedescribed.

3. In a building for the manufacture of malt liquors, the wooden troughsl, in combination with the gutters H, pipes 70, main gutters I. andspouts K, constructed and arranged substantially as shown, and for thepurpose set forth.

4. In a building for the manufacture of malt liquors, thefermenting-room B- and ice-room G, having the flue E, provided withsuitable ducts and dampers, and made interchangeable with the space orflue L, provided with ducts m, and connected to ventilator M, allconstructed and arranged as shown and herein specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereby affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses Enw. SCHMIDT, ALBERT T. BECK.

